NASA plans update on SLS moon rocket's first flight

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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- NASA plans another update Thursday on progress the space agency is making toward the launch of the first moon rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V behemoths.

The agency says Artemis engineers are "working through final closeout tasks for the launch, as well as integrated testing before the rocket rolls out to the pad" at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time in mid-March.

The Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule will roll slowly out of the space center's massive Vehicle Assembly Building to Complex 39B, about four miles away.

The rollout will be the first time a NASA rocket so large -- 322 feet tall -- has moved to a launch pad since Apollo 17's Saturn V rocket did so before launching three astronauts to the moon in 1972.

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